Lo all, and happy St. Patrik's day btw =]

I'm having problems with Squirrelmail. After installing it, it asks for a username/password, which i have no idea about. Also, it says that uid/pass is the one(s) i use for my smtp protocol.

I'm not quite sure if i have a uid/pass there, or how to check.. I have Slack 9.1 (current) installed, and out of the box, my email server worked. All i did is update my DNS settings, and use pine as a client.

So i'm not sure if i'm confusing A with B, or if i have to configure something for smtp, or .. .well lets just say im confused here

I was wondering if anyone solved this problem, or has any idea on what i should be looking on, and where i should be looking at.

Thanks
-- A Happy Guinness 'n Marmite lovin' user.

Okay a few things to check before proceeding:

Do you have these installed and currently running/working:

1. MTA, example: Sendmail, Postfix, qmail, etc?
2. IMAPD


Also when it asks for you username and password, that is a username and password of a given user on your system, except root. It won't allow root to login for security reasons which totally makes sense.

When you create a user on your system, they automatically should be setup to get mail, either locally or thru the MTA your running and configured properly for your particular domain and email server.

And sending you should really require no authentication unless you specified this in your configuration for your mail server.

Let us know..

Yes, i have the latest of both Sendmail, and IMAPD installed. I can send mail directly from sendmail, as well as pine.

I reconfigured Squirrelmail carefully reading the docs, and finally im one step closer.. Now it gives me an error saying, Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
111 : Connection refused.

I have port 143 open, however i can't telnet into it as other's recommended me to do so.

A few extra things i might mention,

In SquirrelMail's config's general setting, i have assigned the method used for sending messages to 1. Sendmail (as opposed to the other choice, SMTP)

when i check my proccesses, i have sendmail running. As for imapd, it doesn't seem like it is. And when i type
imapd
it gives me a message

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN] xushi.co.uk IMAP4rev1 2003.339 at Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:44:55 +0000 (GMT)

*Bad Null Cimmand.

This is most probably due to me being new to all this.. I don't know what im doing or not doing to be honest, and any suggestions will be very helpful.

Danka

BAAAAAAAAH.....
ffs its always them really small things that hold you back...
Solved the problem..

imap wasn't running, all i had to do was
pico /etc/inetd.conf
and uncomment 2 lines
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/popa3d
imap2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd

wOULD SOMEONE TOLD HOW TO UNCOMMENT VIA SHH?
I dont have any idea about that comment , i enter "pico /etc/inetd.conf" but then?
step by step?
Thanks